Please help us to keep this page current and useful. Contribute to it by email or phone (Veronica at 246-1509) or in writing to TINet, Box 6-15, Thetis Island.

• Peak Oil Clock

• Climate Action Network Canada
• Climate Ark
• Common Energy - a student initiative at UVic
• Green Communities Canada
• Hurricanes, Climate, and Katrina: Research, Reviews, and Articles from Science Online, with a section of links to further research
• Information on Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks from Environment Canada
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• The Ecologist Online - the website of a respected environmental affairs magazine based in the UK
• The New Climate Almanac, Globe and Mail, February 17, 07
• Rough Weather Ahead: How Climate Change will Hit BC, from The Tyee
• Scientific American Online - this link goes to their section on weather and climate
• Turn Up the Heat - a site by George Monbiot
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Climate and Oceans
• YaleGlobal On-line - the environmental section of a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
• "You Can't Spin Mother Nature" - interview with PR Pro Jim Hoggan

Books about Environmental Concerns
These titles are linked to information about them, but most are also available from the Regional Library

• An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore
• The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook: Slowing Climate Change and Saving Money, by Godo Stoyke
• The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, by Nicholas Stern
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot
• The Revenge of Gaia, by James Lovelock
• The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization , by Thomas Homer-Dixon
• The Weather Makers, by Tim Flannery
• The Winds of Change, by Eugene Linden

Green Shopping

• SPUD: "Small Potatoes Urban Delivery" - on-line groceryshopping , especially organic produce. Normally they deliver in the Victoria area, but if enough people here want to co-op, they will deliver as close as Chemainus.
• Green World Electric Vehicles- electric bicycles, electric scooters, electric motorcycles
• Canadian Electric Vehicles Ltd In Errington on Vancouver Island, does conversions of existing vehicles to electric, provides conversion kits, and sells some electric commercial vehicles.

Local Activities to take part in

• Broom is a highly invasive non-native plant which crowds out native varieties and poisons the ground. If you would like to help in the ongoing process of removing broom from Thetis, call Bev Vreeswijk at 246-5265.
• Chemainus Biodiversity Education Project - a biodiversity education pilot project aimed to raise awareness and develop educational materials for local schools (including Thetis and Kuper). Everyone is welcome.
  Some related information:
  - a letter from the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, about the Chemainus Biodiversity Education Project
  - Media release, April 21, '07: "Pilot biodiversity education project coming to Chemainus"
  - Chemainus Biodiversity Education Project - community workshop on eelgrass mapping on June 7th, '08
  

Comments, Blogs, Notices

• Notes on the discussion following the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth" at Forbes Hall on Feb. 17th, '07
• An Open Letter to Thetis Islanders
• Remember: April 22nd is Earth day!